Wedding Crashers (2005)
- Before Owen Wilson was cast, several major A-list stars turned down the lead role because they felt the script was too risky.
- David Dobkin originally wanted a completely different ending for the film, but test audiences preferred the one we see today.
- The incredible score for Wedding Crashers was composed in just a few weeks after the original composer dropped out.
Wedding Crashers is a 2005 American comedy directed by David Dobkin. Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn star as John Beckwith and Jeremy Grey, two divorce mediators and lifelong best friends who crash weddings to meet women, using fake identities and elaborate personas to charm their way into receptions, give heartfelt toasts, and seduce bridesmaids. When they infiltrate the wedding of the daughter of Treasury Secretary William Cleary, played by Christopher Walken, John falls genuinely in love with Claire Cleary, played by Rachel McAdams, while Jeremy is pursued by the aggressively amorous Gloria, played by Isla Fisher, whose family's political dynasty and dysfunctional relationships threaten the friends' deception.
Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn's rapid-fire comedic chemistry — Wilson's laid-back charm against Vaughn's motor-mouthed nervous energy — was the film's primary entertainment, and the crashing montage that opened the film was one of the decade's most joyous comedy sequences. Wedding Crashers earned $285 million worldwide on a $40 million budget.
